Consonant Change in English Worldwide [electronic resource] : Synchrony Meets Diachrony /
Schreier, D.author.
Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics. Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Consonant Clusters: General Observations; 3 Initial Cluster Reduction in English; 4 Final Cluster Reduction in English; 5 Theoretical Implications; 6 Summary and Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-243) and index.
Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in synchronic varieties, thus defining consonantal change as a phenomenon involving psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonological theory and contact linguistics. Moreover, he weighs the impact of external and internal effects on causation, examining data from a total of 15 varieties with different time depths and social histories.
Historical linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Phonology.
Historical Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Comparative Linguistics.
Phonology and Phonetics.